Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.